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Contactless supermarkets are here. But at what cost?
This post was originally published on May 5, 2020. Contactless stores and delivery options have shot into the mainstream thanks to the spread of Covid-19, and it’s very possible that they’ll be an...
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EARN IT Act: U.S. might permanently ban end-to-end encryption
The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) bill was introduced into the U.S. Senate by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Richard Blumentha...
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What is GDPR and how do you obtain GDPR compliance?
To understand the story of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we must rewind back to 2011. That was when newly graduated Austrian lawyer and data protection activist Max Schrems filed a re...
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Why isn’t Big Tech embraced in its own backyard?
Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s Bay Area have long been synonymous with Big Tech. It was the center of the dot-com boom of the ’90s, which ushered in the fastest adoption of new technology in m...
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Students and activists in the U.S. lead the fight against facial recognition
This post was originally published March 12, 2020. Advancements in facial recognition tech have made it possible to identify us even when we’re covering our face, but a new wave of privacy advocates...
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Chrome extensions found leaking millions of records
This post was originally published on March 3, 2020. Security researchers at a division of Cisco said last week that they had uncovered 71 extensions in the Chrome Web Store that had covertly uploaded...
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A new survey shows Americans increasingly care about privacy
Given how many privacy breaches hit the news, it’s of little surprise that 96% of Americans recently surveyed by ExpressVPN said that online data privacy was important to them. What’s more, many w...
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Are you an Android user? Your Bluetooth might be compromised
This post was originally published on February 18, 2020. Researchers at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt recently discovered CVE-2020-0022, an Android bug which ta...
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The uncrackable Android trojan: What is xHelper?
We’ve advised our readers to stay safe from malware and trojans by keeping their devices updated at all times, but a new strain caught in the wild is seemingly impenetrable to every cybersecurity be...
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The privacy nightmare in our wallets
Google’s been keeping track of your online purchases, hotel bookings, and newsletter subscriptions for years, but a new privacy concern takes this several steps further. An experiment by The Washing...
